{"id":95180,"date":"2020-07-02T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=95180"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:16:12","slug":"horace-greeley-to-g-t-hammond-no-political-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horace-greeley-to-g-t-hammond-no-political-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace Greely to G.T. Hammond\u2014No Political Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\">New York<br \/>\nJuly 2, 1860<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">My Dear Sir:<br \/>\nI have never yet had influence with any Federal Administration, and may have no better with the next than with the last. I never wrote a letter to a President elect nor to a nominee of my party for that post. This is a government of lawyers, and I was not educated to their profession. I will not beg office nor tender unsought advice. I do not think it at all probable that I shall be in a position next year to help any one, and I will not humble myself to ask favors. So I do not think it at all probable that I can help you in any contingency.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Horace Greely<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">G.T. Hammond, Esq.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York July 2, 1860 My Dear Sir: I have never yet had influence with any Federal Administration, and may have no better with the next than with the last. I never wrote a letter to a President elect nor to a nominee of my party for that post. This is a government of lawyers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Horace-Greeley.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}